Monday, August 16, 2010

A Basement of Curiosities Sampler

Private Prisons Benefit from Immigration Laws Like SB1070

In Arizona alone they pay 11 million to ICE to round up illegal aliens

The Strangest Town in Alaska : The History of Whittier, Alaska and the Portage Valley [Paperback]

C.R.A.B. Robot: The Future of Law Enforcement

Sylvatic Plague: The Black Death of Prairie Dogs

BP to fund mental health in oil-hit Gulf states

KANSAS CITY, Missouri - Police arrested about 14 protesters Monday morning at the future site of a plant that will make parts of nuclear bombs

Fly Fishers Spread Invasive Microorganisms One Step at a Time

Sounds trivial but considering what I saw camping last week it probaly isn't too far from the truth
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Geraldo Rivera's famous expose after he had entered Willowbrook with a film crew in 1972, using a stolen key

Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well (69 BBC Sessions)

'Fleetwood Mac' lead singer Stevie Nicks talks about her first solo concert recording since 1985, why cell phones and computers make her mad (and her hopes for Britney Spears, and Bob Dylans crazy)

Landslide in Italy

The Allman Brothers Band announced the first set of dates since Gregg Allman’s organ transplant

New bill a severe threat to investigative journalism in Israel

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Cryptome’s John Young: Internet is a “Vast Spying Machine” [VIDEO]

RAF pilot Ron Dick flies a Lockheed T-33 through the Grand Canyon in 1959

via these kids who also bring us Journey Through Canyons — a stunning HD time-lapse of the canyonlands in Arizona and Utah, featuring the Grand Canyon, Glen Canyon, Bryce Canyon, and Zion Canyon.

Jan 5, 2009 ... Two years ago, General Petraeus oversaw the creation of a new counterinsurgency field manual for the U.S. military

US Navy reports robbery of 4 commercial ships near Iraq's southern oil hub of Basra

Seaside Shark - July 30, 2010

Google Buys Microdrone

order yours now

Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America

The Partnership was founded in Waco, Texas on March 23, 2005 by Paul Martin, Prime Minister of Canada, Vicente Fox, President of Mexico, and George W. Bush, President of the United States.

Thirty thousand people turned out in East Point on Wednesday seeking applications for government-subsidized housing

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Mexican Drug War Videos

The Delicious Carrot Cake They Serve on Rikers Island

John Lennon reading about Brian Jones death. 1969

Boogeyman 'SUPERBUG' Spreads to U.S.

Bob Dylan - Just Like a Woman - Kansas City, MO 2010

Ron Paul & Lew Rockwell "We Have A Dictatorship When It Comes To Foreign Policy"

MSNBC's David Gregory's Wife: Beth Wilkinson, Fannie Mae Executive Vice President - General Counsel and Corporate Secretary who helped destroy the US financial system

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Capturing Pigeons in Spain

The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy: How the New World Order, Man-Made Diseases, and Zombie Banks Are Destroying America [Hardcover]

600,000 Chinese Die Making Our Shiny Toys

America’s Biggest Jobs Program - the US Military

The U.S. War Addiction

Staff Tackles and Chokes Deaf Shopper for Shoplifting

The Centers for Disease Control has released a new report on foodborne illness data collected in 2007

Annie Oakley; November 1, 1894

The Target Corporation will close the last 262 garden centers its stores nationwide

RIP- Little Feat Drummer Richie Hayward

Little Feat - Fat Man In The Bathtub

No drugs were found, but the tenants of the home were charged with disorderly house and signed a promise to appear in court

Anderson Cooper Stuns GOP Rep. On 'Terror Babies': 'They Did Not Tell Me You Were Going To Grill Me' (VIDEO)

Gogol Bordello, Live at Red Rocks, Denver, August 12, 2010

California Lawmakers are considering controversial new legislation this week that would allow vehicles to be equipped with dashboard cameras

The proposed law, AB1942, would promote safer driving habits and reduce accidents by permitting video recorders to be installed on the windshield.

The bill currently allows devices to record video, audio, how fast and which direction the vehicle is traveling, a history of where your car has been, steering and brake performance and seat belt usage.

Did The CIA Assassinate Matt Simmons For Blowing The Whistle On The BP Gulf Oil Spill Coverup?

Matthew Simmons served as energy adviser to U.S. President George W. Bush. He was, up until his death, a member of the National Petroleum Council and the Council on Foreign Relations.


Matt Simmons : only 1% of deadly crude is on the surface

Millions of Dead Fish, Alligators, Turtles Floating Down Bolivian Rivers

Hundreds of Thousands of DEAD FISH on NEW JERSEY SHORE AUG 12 2010

Monday, August 09, 2010

Saturday, August 07, 2010

What google knows about you and your friends

Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs - Devil Do

BP Fires 10,000 Cleanup Workers

Nothing to see here, move along citizen

The Senate, yesterday, unanimously passed the Child Nutrition Act (which expires every five Septembers), calling it the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act,

Food sold on school lunch lines and in vending machines will need to meet the new nutrition guidelines, which are still in the works. This includes possible prohibition of high-sugar sodas and candy, while less-than-nutritious favorites like pizza would have healthier ingredients, the Times reported.

But in part to help pay for the program, the Senate also approved $14 billion in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), more commonly referred to as food stamps.

11 Bands That Skipped Woodstock For Incredibly Lame Reasons

Ian Anderson explained why he and the other Jethro Tull guys didn’t want to play.

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I asked our manager, Terry Ellis, “Well, who else is going to be there?” And he listed a large number of groups who were reputedly going to play, and that it was going to be a hippie festival, and I said, “Will there be lots of naked ladies? And will there be taking drugs and drinking lots of beer, and fooling around in the mud?” Because rain was forecast. And he said, “Oh, yeah.” So I said, “Right. I don’t want to go.” Because I don’t like hippies, and I’m usually rather put off by naked ladies unless the time is right.

The Doors - Touch Me on The Smothers Brothers Show

Light My Fire

BehindTheMedspeak: The rise of robotic exoskeletons

Enormous Ice Block Breaks Off Greenland Glacier

US Military 'Banned' From Viewing Wikileaks

Pentagon demands return of leaked war documents

Friday, August 06, 2010

"The Ambushed Grand Jury: How the Justice Department Covered Up Government Nuclear Crimes and How We Caught Them Red Handed"

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A Deer Steals Man's Wife

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Storm structure from South Dakota!

Chad Cowan and best-selling author of "The Stormchasers" Jenna Blum captured this absolutely INSANE storm structure from South Dakota on July 23, 2010! Earlier in its life-span, as the storm was over the town of Vivian, SD, it dropped a RECORD-BREAKING hailstone

Andy Griffith and The Darlings

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Tick and Snake Market Report